Word: equalled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...technically almost twins. Both hit with apparently effortless length and accuracy, forehand and backhand; both have a deadly overhead, a stinging service. Both are stylists whose repertory takes in all the shots that tennis knows. All-court players, they can chop, drop-shot, lob or volley with equal fluency. But no two characters could be so antipodal as 22-year-old Donald Budge and 28-year-old Gottfried von Cramm...
...this, suggests that in this case, too, Edmond was a dispassionate observer.) But that they were men of the world, not mere bourgeois scriveners, their journal amply witnesses. They were as much at home in a princess' salon as in an actress' dressing-room, describe each with equal skill...
...nemma" means "doesn't care at all for taking girls home," not "likes to take a girl home." At the most, taking "gabit gore nix drum" as an understatement, it might mean "doesn't mind," but "likes" would be "gleicht," derived from the German adjective "gleich," meaning equal, similar, like...
...high for the Hitler regime-530,000,000 marks ($213,219,000), 10% better than last month, 34% better than July 1936. Nearly all exports were finished goods-iron products, machines, chemicals, textiles, automobiles. Imports last month amounted to 499,700,000 marks ($201,029,310), nearly equal to the record high of the preceding month. Germany thus showed an export balance of 30,300,000 marks...
...recent years, newer tracks have made a practice of publicizing themselves and attracting famous thoroughbreds by posting immense added prizes for handicaps. The three-year-old Santa Anita (Calif.) track currently gives the biggest, $100,000. Suffolk Downs (Mass.) and Narragansett Park (R. I.), both comparatively new plants, plan equal purses next season. To make sure that great horses will enter these races, handicappers at new tracks narrow the limits of weights imposed on the entries, so that a very good horse need not carry much more poundage than a horse whose form is far less impressive. Through the sparkling...